Air India plane crash: Survivor’s story hikes demand for emergency exit seats… KOLKATA: The miraculous survival of Viswashkumar Ramesh, the only person to escape Thursday’s AI-171 crash in Ahmedabad, has led to an unprecedented demand for seats near emergency exits on flights across carriers. Ramesh was seated on 11A – next to the emergency exit…
Representative image (Picture credit: AP) AHMEDABAD: The morning sun had barely warmed the pavement outside Ahmedabad’s civil hospital Friday when Nilesh Vaghela, 47, arrived with his truckload of 20 wooden coffins. Neatly arranged, polished to sombre perfection,& lined with care, the coffins bore no names yet, only the weight of untold stories. For most, coffins…
Relatives of a victim mourn outside a hospital in Ahmedabad AHMEDABAD: Even as the on-ground toll in the Air India Dreamliner crash rose to 33, with 29 more bodies being found or identified on Friday, the families of several people still deemed ‘missing’ continued to wait anxiously for news of their kin.Ashok Patni, who lives…
AHMEDABAD: With bodies charred beyond recognition, the identification of most of the victims requires DNA analysis. But, a neurosurgeon managed to identify his pregnant wife from the pendant of her mangalsutra.Dr Pradeep Solanki was living with his wife, Kajal, a homoeopath, on the fifth floor of Atulyam-4, the residential quarters for superspecialty students. Solanki’s friend…
AHMEDABAD: An Air India crash victim’s daughter, Falguni, on Friday said she was willing to pay airline owner Tata Group Rs 2 crore if it could bring back her father. The group has announced Rs 1 crore for each flier who perished in Thursday’s crash.Videos of the distraught Falguni’s outburst went viral on Friday as…
Thirty doctors who accepted foreign travel and hospitality worth Rs 1.9 crore from pharma company AbbVie in Feb-March 2024 have faced no action from NMC because the department of pharmaceuticals (DoP) has refused to make their names public and is yet to forward the names to the commission.The Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP)…
DEHRADUN: A 45-year-old man from Kerala’s Kottayam, wanted for allegedly murdering his second wife, was found dead near the Kedarnath shrine. Police said that KK Premkumar was in jail for the murder of his first wife in 2019 and he was released from the jail on bail before remarrying about five months ago. KK Premkumar…
Air India plane crash (Photo: AP) AHMEDABAD: Manish Kamdar is inconsolable. “If only…” he repeats, dazed by the cruel hands of fate. He lost his daughter Yasha, her mother-in-law Raxa Modha and the youngest addition to the family, his 15-month-old grandson Rudra, in the crash. What happened at the immigration counter torments Kamdar. An immigration…
File photo: J&K CM Omar Abdullah (Picture credit: ANI) SRINAGAR: Political parties in Kashmir, including the governing National Conference, condemned Israel’s attack on Iran on Friday, saying “the silence of influential countries like the US on this issue is alarming”.J&K CM Omar Abdullah said Iran had not provoked Israel in any manner to justify its…
Representative image (Photo: IANS) A UN general assembly (UNGA) resolution seeking an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza was adopted with overwhelming support, as 149 countries voted in favour. India was among the 19 that abstained, even as key American allies like the UK, Australia and Japan voted in favour.The US, Israel and 10…
